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If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

Christopher Hitchens
Bad Day, Islam, Word Of God
Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 21, No. 4, Fall 2001.

Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

Christopher Hitchens
Teaching, Arrogance, Islam
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.129, Atlantic Books Ltd

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

Christopher Hitchens
Islam, Way, Dangerous
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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